The Department of State Services (DSS) has explained why it took activist Omoyele Sowore to court, saying the move was aimed at obtaining a judicial interpretation of an online post it considered defamatory towards President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
In a statement issued on Tuesday by its Deputy Director of Public Relations and Strategic Communications, Favour Dozie, the agency responded to public concerns over Sowore’s recent remand at the Kuje Correctional Centre.
The DSS maintained that it neither arrested Sowore nor opposed his bail, insisting that his remand resulted from court proceedings and the subsequent revocation of his bail.
According to the agency, the matter began on August 25, 2025, when Sowore allegedly published a post on his X and Facebook accounts in which he wrote: “this criminal actually went to Brazil to state that there is NO MORE CORRUPTION in Nigeria. What audacity to lie shamelessly.”
The DSS said it viewed the post as
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